As we have discovered (in Ezra chapter 9), there is "sin in the camp!" (Read it again: "The princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, WHAT HUMILITY!
Once Ezra and his compatriots arrived back home, they found things "worse" than they had ever imagined! The sin of intermarriage (the Jews with the heathen all around them) was rampant! Apparently idolatry was still in vogue, as well. The … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, A GREAT PRAYER!
Ezra chapter 9 is basically a prayer, at least its last two-thirds, from verse 6 until the chapter's end, verse 15. In fact, it is a GREAT prayer! (Something interesting about the Bible, Daniel chapter 9 is such a prayer. As is Nehemiah chapter 9! … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, JUST ONE (BEAUTIFUL) CLAUSE
My Text this morning, for our daily Lesson, is Ezra 9:4. One line from that significant verse. "Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, A MAJOR THEME
It's truly the focus of Ezra, largely so. For that matter Nehemiah, too. (Of course they are "twin" Books in many ways, one following the other chronologically, books of Biblical history.) Paul hammered on this topic as well. As did nearly … [Continue reading]
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